Russia. A History

J. Burbank and D. L. Ransel (eds.), Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire (Bloomington, Ind., 1998), collection of innovative new studies with an emphasis on the cultural dimension.

R. O. Crummey, The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist (Madison, WI, 1970), pioneering case study of dissenting Old Believers.

B. Engel, Women in Russia, 1700–2000 (Cambridge, 2004), up-to-date summary incorporating recent scholarship.

W. Fuller, Jr., Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600–1914 (New York, 1992), fascinating analysis of military strategy and policy.

P. Gatrell, The Tsarist Economy, 1850–1917 (New York, 1986), general survey.

R. P. Geraci and M. Khodarkovsky (eds.), Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia (Ithaca, NY, 2001), on religious interaction between various Christian and non-Christian confessions.

D. Geyer, Russian Imperialism (New Haven, CT, 1987), on interaction of foreign and domestic policy to 1914.

B. Jelavich, A Century of Russian Foreign Policy, 1814–1914 (Philadelphia, PA, 1964), excellent survey.

D. Longley The Longman Companion to Imperial Russia, 1689–1917 (Harlow, 2000), useful reference volume on Imperial Russia.

D. Lieven (ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia, ii: Imperial Russia, 1689–1917

(Cambridge, 2006), wide-ranging, thematic essays on institutions and processes of change in Imperial Russia.

H. D. Löwe, Tsar and Jews (Chur, 1993), careful analysis of the Jewish question in the Russian Empire.

M. L. Marrese, A Woman’s Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700–1861 (Ithaca, NY, 2002), analysis of the property rights of noble women as a reflection of women’s status and the aspirations of nobility.

B. N. Mironov, The Social History of Imperial Russia, 2 vols. (Boulder, Colo., 2000), comprehensive, quantitative study of society and state in Imperial Russia.

T. C. Owen, The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800–1917 (Cambridge, 1991), valuable study of the development of corporations in Imperial Russia.

W. M. Pintner and D. K. Rowney (eds.), The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill, NC, 1980), pioneering essays on bureaucracy and civil service.

M. Raeff, Understanding Imperial Russia: State and Society in the Old Regime (New York, 1983), broad synthetic study of Russia from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

D. Ransel, Mothers of Misery (Princeton, NJ, 1988), original study of child abandonment and foundling care in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A. M. Schrader, Languages of the Lash: Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill., 2002), exploration of penal practice and reform as prism of social identities and status in Imperial Russia.

H. Seton-Watson, The Russian Empire, 1801–1917 (Oxford, 1967), detailed account, with particular attention to institutional, diplomatic, and minority history.

W. Sunderland, Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe (Ithaca, NY, 2004), suggestive analysis of steppe colonization and its role in empire-building.

A. Swift, Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia

(Berkeley, CA, 2002), exploration of a neglected but important sphere of popular culture.

E. K. Wirtschafter, Social Identity in Imperial Russia (De Kalb, Ill., 1997), comprehensive study of the complex social categories, with rich bibliography.

C. D. Worobec, Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia (De Kalb, Ill., 2001), pioneering study of female possession in law, religious life, psychiatry, and literature.

R. Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy (2 vols., Princeton, NJ, 1995–2000) on the symbols, ceremonies and culture of rulership.

4. THE PETRINE ERA AND AFTER, 1689–1740